Johan Berggren
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Digital Forensics and Incident Response @Google :: I write open source tools :: Creator of OpenRelik and Timesketch https://openrelik.org/ https://timesketch.org/ #DFIR • Posts are my own • he/him
New release: OpenRelik CLI. Built for both humans and machines. Hook it up to your favourite harness and operate your forensic workflows using agents. #DFIR
OpenRelik CLI Run forensic workflows from the terminal, built for humans and machines. Install AI agent skill: $ openrelik skill install Chain workers ( --then ) or run in parallel ( --and ) $ openrelik run log2timeline --then psort --format jsonl 123 openrelik.org/docs/guides/...
I'm proud to have been invited by the Swedish Armed Forces 4th Cyber Defence Unit and to contribute to a team that placed third in Locked Shields, organised by CCDCOE. Strong teamwork between Swedish and French Armed Forces made it possible.
If you are an OSS maintainer or someone filing security bug reports. This is an essential read. We need an updated process to deal with the high rate of automated vulnerability reports and this initiative points out some very good advice and suggestions. www.cncf.io/blog/2026/04...
The AI-driven shift in vulnerability discovery: What maintainers and bug finders need to know
AI models have recently drastically changed the sophistication, speed and scale of software vulnerability discovery. It is now trivial for non-experts to find real vulnerabilities in software with…
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New version of OpenRelik (the #DFIR workflow engine) is out. New workflow UI, support for chords (task groups with callback), MCP server and much much more. Give it a try! Take a look at the new page for workers showcase, both official and community contributed: openrelik.org/workers/
OpenRelik Workers
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OpenRelik 0.7.0 just dropped with configurable storage providers for RW or RO locations, chords with callback tasks, DuckDB to support querying file based databases, MCP server to integrate directly with automated AI workflows, new workers + much more! Full changelog: openrelik.org/changelog #DFIR
Achievement unlocked: Presenting at BSides Munich! ✅✨ On Nov 17th I presented my talk ”From Hours to Minutes: Automating Incident Response Triage with Open-Source Tools”. Thanks to the @bsidesmunich.bsky.social organizers, volunteers and attendees for an amazing conference!
Great stuff from Maarten and the Timesketch team!
Using Timesketch for timeline analysis? We recently added a new feature: LLM summaries of up to 500 events in view. Example below uses Gemini Flash, but you can just as easily use a local Ollama model. Setup guide: timesketch.org/guides/user/...
🚀 Just launched: DetectionForge — a purpose-built platform for crafting, testing & validating @limacharlie.io detection rules. Perform detection unit tests & multi-org backtesting + import/export IaC 🔗 Try it: detectionforge.ddi.sh 💻 GitHub: github.com/Digital-Defe... #detectionengineering #secops
DetectionForge
DetectionForge - A comprehensive detection engineering environment for crafting, validating, and testing LimaCharlie detection rules
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Great summary of a great paper. Worth a read if you are building LLM agents systems.
"Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections" is an excellent new paper that provides six design patterns to help protect LLM tool-using systems (call them "agents" if you like) against prompt injection attacks Here are my notes on the paper simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/13/...
Here are the slides/resources from our #SecurityFest talk on "Modernizing Incident Response Using Techniques that Scale" Talk: www.youtube.com/live/Znl7TBF...
Security Fest 2025 - Day 2
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Some excellent work by @craiggidney.bsky.social that reduces the number of qubits (in a quantum computer) required to break RSA by 20-fold. If you don’t have a migration plan to safe algorithms, now is the time to start one!
I'm often asked if I'll redo the 2019 quantum factoring estimate. Denser storage by yokes, smaller magic factories by cultivation, slimmer approx arithmetic by Chevignard et al… surely the cost is lower now? Yes, it's lower now. security.googleblog.com/2025/05/trac... arxiv.org/abs/2505.15917
tested #openrelik, #hayabusa, #timesketch and #splunk4dfir using #thedfirreport recent analyst case. was a lot fun! will definitely use those tools more now 🚀
Hey #DFIR people! New #OpenRelik release just dropped. Some cool new features and a bunch of bug fixes.
New #OpenRelik release 0.5.0 is here with some cool new additions: * Import files directly from Google Cloud Storage * Updated AI summary visuals * Glob filtering support when extracting archives * BlockDevice support for mounting disk images and partitions Changelog: openrelik.org/changelog/#050
A new Unfurl release is here! v2025.02 adds: 🌐 Parsing encoded/obfuscated IP addresses 🦋 Resolving #Bluesky handles to their identifiers (DIDs) and looking up their creation timestamps 🐛 Bug fixes & better bulk parsing Blog: dfir.blog/unfurl-parse... Code: github.com/obsidianfore... #DFIR #OSINT
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Extract and Visualized Data from URLs
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Hayabusa - A sigma-based threat hunting and fast forensics 🔎 timeline generator for Windows event logs. It can easily be integrated with other hunting & DFIR tools such as Velociraptor & OpenRelik. Check it out 🔥🔥: github.com/Yamato-Secur... #threathunting #DFIR #sigma #cybersecurity #infosec
GitHub - Yamato-Security/hayabusa: Hayabusa (隼) is a sigma-based threat hunting and fast forensics timeline generator for Windows event logs.
Hayabusa (隼) is a sigma-based threat hunting and fast forensics timeline generator for Windows event logs. - Yamato-Security/hayabusa
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It's easy to lose sight of the fact that, from a tech perspective, we're absolutely living in the future. Our CEO and co-founder @apenwarr.ca looks at just how powerful our modern machines are — and what that means for all of us
Living in the future, by the numbers
Instead of making the traditional New Year predictions, let’s talk instead about the beautiful technological future we live in: the one that exists right now but we don’t always notice.
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Wooden satellite.. amazing. And built without nails or glue. Oh Japan, never change ♥️ www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/j...
Japan's wooden satellite leaves International Space Station
Carefully crafted wooden box, LignoSat, is on its own
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Great stuff from @tomchop.me! Memory analysis and Yara support in #OpenRelik #DFIR
I had a look at #OpenRelik last year and wrote a couple workers that might be useful: * github.com/tomchop/open...: Scan memory images using @volatilityfoundation.org plugins. Supports Yara rules * github.com/tomchop/open... - Run Yara rules on a directory. Supports third-party systems like #Yeti!
Great summary of last year of databases.
Buckle up because we're banging into the new year with my annual retrospective of the last year in databases! Highlights include license change blowback, Databricks vs. Snowflake gangwar, @duckdb.org's shotgun weddings, and buying a quarterback to impress your lover: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...
Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/... Table of contents:
In Sweden you have to take every opportunity to surf, regardless of the weather and season.. this one is for @halvarflake.bsky.social (In Swedish, but the picture really tells the whole story :) www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...
Snöstorm i Jämtland – då surfade Årebor i Kallsjön
Vanligtvis brukar nysnö locka ut människor i backar och skidspår så här års. Men i veckan var det annat som lockade för ett gäng Årebor. Istället för att ta till vara på vinterns första ordentliga snö...
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Home Assistant is an amazing OSS project. I'll excited to build on the new Voice device. I will get mine in a few days, and I can finally talk to my house! Build any automation I can imagen. Custom wake word (ok computer 🖖). LLM function calling anyone... www.youtube.com/live/ZgoaoTp...
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New #OpenRelik release. Task metrics (queue length, completion, failures etc) & new Prometheus exporter. Plus, a new task dashboard for deep dives into task performance. 📝 openrelik.org/changelog/ 🔗 discord.gg/hg652gktwX #DFIR
Within software architecture, few people shaped the industry as much as @gradybooch.bsky.social. Safe to say he's a true legend. In today's The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast episode, he shares fascinating stories, insights, observations. Watch here: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/software-a...
When I moved back to Sweden a few years back my team snagged my password in this great tradition. The hack involved ketchup and I was very proud of everyone involved. bughunters.google.com/blog/6355265...
Blog: The Great Google Password Heist: 15 years of hacking passwords to test our security (and build team culture!)
The Leaving Tradition in Google's security team, which could be described as a type of small-scale offensive security exercise, is a great (and fun) example of team culture. Curious? See this blog pos...
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🚀 New OpenRelik release Role-based access control, folder sharing, database improvements, optimisations for file listings, chunked file uploads, bug fixes and refactoring efforts to improve stability. 📝 https://openrelik.org/changelog/ 🔗 https://discord.gg/hg652gktwX #DFIR